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Mentoring of Black Graduate and Medical Students, Postdoctoral Scholars, and Early-Career Faculty in Science, Engineering, and Medicine Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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2 Understanding the Current Status of Black Professionals in Academia and Industry
Pages 7-14

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... , shared data on medical school faculty and leadership to challenge the group to consider how to increase representation.
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... medical schools, drawing primarily on AAMC data. Blacks/­African Americans represented 6.2 percent of medical school graduates in 2018– 2019.
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... Across medical school faculties, there were 3,297 department chairs in 2019, of whom 120 were Black, or 3.6 percent of all chairs. Black faculty were 4 percent of clinical science department chairs and 2.2 percent of basic science department chairs.
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... Patterson Research Institute to look at where people are falling outside of educational pathways by focusing on children who were ages 0 to 5 at the time of the 2010 census and who could be heading through high school and college later in the decade. The data showed a lower percentage of Latinx and especially Black children made it through to college graduation: • Among white children (ages 0 to 5 in 2010, 2,622,787 in total)
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... The number of Black students increased by 35 percent, and there was a 79 percent increase in Hispanic students graduating with engineering degrees. Despite the percentage increases, he noted that the overall number remained low, and only 3.9 percent of engineering degrees awarded went to Black students.
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... strong internalized racial identity. NSBE has worked with other organizations to scale up success to create the "50K Coalition" with a goal to produce 50,000 female, Hispanic, Native American, and Black engineers annually by 2025.1 Other NSBE resources include a white paper with engagement strategies (Reid et al., 2016)
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... NSBE also partners with the Academic and Research Leadership Network, founded at Georgia Tech, and offers an academic track at its annual conventions. A National Science Foundation grant helps send postdoctoral scholars and early-career faculty to the conference.
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... 2020. Succeeding in Academic Medicine: A Roadmap for Diverse Medical Students and Residents.
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